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    • The End of “Set It and Forget It” Pricing? Opportunities for Market-Based Freight Contracts 

      Acocella, Angela; Caplice, Chris; Sheffi, Yossi (2022-03-22)
      In the for-hire truckload market, firms often experience unexpected transportation cost increases due to contracted transportation service provider (carrier) load rejections. The dominant procurement strategy results in ...
    • Expanding the Freight Contract Portfolio: Index-Based Freight Contract Design Under Uncertainty 

      Acocella, Angela; Caplice, Chris; Sheffi, Yossi (2022-03-23)
      Long-term, fixed-price contracts in the truckload transportation sector have been the prevailing relationship form between firms and their for-hire transportation service providers. While advantageous for planning and ...
    • The Hidden Costs of Not-So-Friendly Ghost Lanes 

      Acocella, Angela; Caplice, Chris (2022-07-04)
      Firms’ (shippers’) procurement of truckload (TL) transportation services is a costly, time-intensive process. The result of these months-long procurement events is typically thousands of contracts between the shipper and ...
    • Rethinking supply chain strategy as a conceptual system 

      Perez-Franco, Roberto; Phadnis, Shardul; Caplice, Chris; Sheffi, Yossi (2016-03-07)
      Changes to the strategy, context or environment of a business unit may necessitate a revision of its supply chain strategy. However, rethinking a supply chain strategy is not an easy problem, and has no clear answer in the ...